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Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1917.
Part I.—GENERAL STATISTICS.
For the purposes of this Report the year 1917 consists of the 52 weeks
ended 29th December, 1917.
POPULATION.
The Registrar-General estimates the civilian population for St. Pancras
for 1917, at 186,600, and the total population, including men on service, as
208,006. The former rate is used in this report in estimating death rates,
and the latter in estimating birth rates. In previous years an estimate of the
population has been made by the Medical Officer of Health, based on the
census figures of 1911, but in view of the difficulty in estimating owing
to the changes brought about by the war, the Registrar-General's figures
are this year taken for the purpose of this Report.
MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages celebrated in St. Pancras during 1917 was 1979
(including marriages of soldiers and sailors). This is equal to a rate of 9*5
per 1,000 total population.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered in the borough during 1917 was 3,635.
From information received from the Registrar-General, the excess of births
to parishioners occurring outside the borough over births to non-parishioners
occurring inside the borough was 161.
The net number of births for St. Pancras registered during 1917 was,
therefore, 3,796, making an annual birth-rate of 18.2 per 1,000 total population,